#ATIKU2027: HEARTBREAKING!!! If A Major-General Can Be Killed Like A "Stray Animal", Who Then Is Safe Under President Bola Tinubu??? It Is Time To End The Zoning Conversation, And Vote Only For A Competent President Like Atiku Abubakar, That Will Keep Even Ordinary Nigerians Alive; A President That Values The Lives Of ALL Nigerians
A nation where life becomes cheap, soon discovers that death becomes abundant. This is the painful reality confronting Nigerians today, under the failed leadership of President Bola Tinubu and his All Progressives Congress, APC.
Retired Major-General, Rabe Abubakar, a former Director of Defence Information, who spent decades serving and defending Nigeria, has died in the custody of bandits, after being abducted alongside his wife, in Katsina State. His wife reportedly remains in captivity.
Before his death, a heartbreaking video surfaced showing the once-powerful Military Officer and his wife pleading for help from their captors' den. Days later, the nation received the devastating news that he had died in captivity.
Nothing captures the tragedy of Nigeria's Security collapse more than this.
A Major-General, a man who wore the uniform of the Military of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. A man who represented Nigeria's Armed Forces at the highest level. Kidnapped. Humiliated. Abandoned. Dead.
If terrorists and bandits can seize a Retired Major-General, hold him for weeks, and ultimately send him to his grave, what chance does the ordinary Nigerian Farmer, Teacher, Trader, Student or Civil Servant, have?
Under President Tinubu, Nigerians have witnessed a frightening escalation of insecurity. Villages continue to be raided. Communities are emptied. Schoolchildren are kidnapped. Farmers are driven from their lands. Hundreds were slaughtered in the horrific attacks in Kwara State, earlier this year, while kidnappings remain a daily occurrence across large parts of Nigeria.
Yet, official responses often sound more like explanations, than solutions. Nigerians are tired of condolences; tired of assurances that "the perpetrators will be brought to justice", with nothing to show for it, but reports of repentance and rehabilitation.
The death of Major-General Rabe Abubakar should shake the conscience of the nation. A government's first duty is the protection of lives and property. When citizens begin to wonder whether criminals have become more powerful than the State, confidence in government begins to evaporate.
This tragedy also exposes a painful contradiction. Nigeria boasts of one of Africa's largest Security budgets, and one of the continent's biggest Armed Forces, yet armed gangs continue to kidnap, kill and extort, with alarming audacity. The gap between the government's claims and the reality experienced by ordinary citizens, has become impossible to ignore.
Nigeria needs a Commander-in-Chief who inspires confidence through decisive action, not one who appears perpetually reactive to events.
Today, Major-General Rabe Abubakar is dead. His family mourns. His colleagues mourn. The nation should mourn.
However, mourning is not enough. President Tinubu must ensure that his wife is rescued alive, and that every available Security resources is deployed towards dismantling the Criminal Networks terrorising Nigerians.
The country cannot continue to normalise horrors that would provoke national outrage elsewhere. This is not normal, and Nigerians must realise that this is not normal.
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